As is strikingly common in connection with stories like this, (cf. Naveed Haq, or this case in Yemen, and even Nidal Hasan), the attacker has been found to have "psychological problems." Fixating on mental illness as a possible cause for the attack allows the media to ignore any and all others -- especially anything involving Islam. Nonetheless, this attack is another in an increasing trend in Turkey for violence against non-Muslims.
"Roman Catholic bishop stabbed to death in Turkey," by Susan Fraser for the Associated Press, June 3:
ANKARA, Turkey - A Roman Catholic bishop was stabbed to death in southern Turkey on Thursday, a day before he was scheduled to leave for Cyprus to meet with the pope, officials and reports said.
Luigi Padovese, the pope's apostolic vicar in Anatolia, was attacked outside his home in the Mediterranean port of Iskenderun. Dogan news agency video footage of the scene showed the bishop lying dead in front of a building.
Mehmet Celalettin Lekesiz, the governor for the province of Hatay, said police immediately caught the suspected killer.
He said the man, identified only as Murat A., was Padovese's driver for the last four and a half years and was mentally unstable.
"The initial investigation shows that the incident is not politically motivated," Lekesiz said. "We have learned that the suspect had psychological problems and was receiving treatment."
Padovese, who is the equivalent of the bishop for the Anatolia region, was scheduled to leave for Cyprus on Friday to meet with the pope, who is visiting the island, and fellow bishops from around the region for preparations before the church's synod of bishops on the Middle East. The Synod is scheduled for October.
No one answered phones at his church in Iskenderun.
The Vatican spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi, told The Associated Press in Rome that the Vatican felt "immense pain, consternation, bewilderment and stupor" over the death and noted that it showed the "difficult conditions" that the Catholic community in the region lives in.
He said the pope's upcoming visit to Cyprus and the upcoming synod of bishops on the Middle East showed "how the universal church is in solidarity with this community."
The killing is the latest in a string of attacks in recent years on Christians in Turkey, where Christians make up less than 1 percent of the 70 million population.
In 2007, a Roman Catholic priest in the western city of Izmir, Adriano Franchini, was stabbed and slightly wounded in the stomach by a 19-year-old man after Sunday Mass. The man was arrested.
The same year, a group of men entered a Bible-publishing house in the central Anatolian city of Malatya and killed three Christians, including a German national. The five alleged killers are now standing trial for murder.
The killings -- in which the victims were tied up and had their throats slit -- drew international condemnation and added to Western concerns about whether Turkey can protect its religious minorities.
In 2006, amid widespread anger in Islamic countries over the publication in European newspapers of caricatures of Islam's Prophet Muhammad, a 16-year-old boy shot dead a Catholic priest, Father Andrea Santoro, as he prayed in his church in the Black Sea city of Trabzon. The boy was convicted of murder and sentenced to 18 years in prison.
In a 2006 telephone interview with The Associated Press, following another knife attack that injured another priest, Padovese expressed concern over the safety of Catholics priests in Turkey.
"The climate has changed," he said. "It is the Catholic priests that are being targeted."
It seems to me that when the Vatican issues statements that they feel "immense pain, consternation, bewilderment and stupor" in response to a jihad attack, the jihadis feel pleasure and happiness in addition to that derived from the attack itself. Bewilderment and stupor of the kafir is a good thing from the point of view of Islam.
So why does the Vatican make statements of weakness such as this?
Dear Pope,
Raise an army.
Take back the Hagia Sophia.
For starters...
And no doubt the progressive lefties will blame Israel for this.
It's good to see the Vatican being so courageous and using such strong statements like "difficult conditions" to describe the condition in which Christians (for one) live under in all savage Muslim countries. Kinda like the "difficult conditions" the Jews lived under in Germany 73 years ago.
''Murat A.'' was ''mentally unstable''. ie he, as Mr Fitzgerald encapsulates in the phrase, started to take his religion seriously.
What's surprising to me is AP's characterization of Mohammed as "Islam's Prophet." They normally don't use any qualifiers when referring to Mohammed as a prophet.
prophet muhammad was a mental case, sooo ...
How long can Turkey continue as a member of NATO? They are closely tied to Iran, Syria, and Russia. An Islamist government is in power. The country is becoming increasingly anti-western. As it stands now Turkey is not to be trusted. All NATO secrets will be an open book to enemies of the West. At this point Turkey is playing a double game, but it will soon become untenable.
This just floors me, even to the point I heard in the darkness of my mind the voice of Gomer Pyle saying, "Surrr-praz, surrr-praz, surrr-praz!" This attack on a non-muslim by a Muslim who has mental problems is what I would term "Utterly Baffling." Why, it's as baffling as the hundred or so other utterly baffling attacks just like it laid out here:
http://nodhimmitude.blogspot.com/2008/08/utterly-baffling-hammer-attack-on-nine.html
Geert Wilders is a Dutch Member of Parliament
Here is his speech, as the Chairman of the Freedom Party of the Netherlands at the Four Seasons Hotel in New York.He is introducing an Alliance of Patriots and announcing the 'Facing the Final Jihad' Conference in Jerusalem.
Dear friends,
Thank you very much for inviting me.
I come to America with a mission. All is not well in the old world. There is a tremendous danger looming, and it is very difficult to be optimistic. We might be in the final stages of the Islamization of Europe . This not only is a clear and present danger to the future of Europe itself, it is a threat to America and the sheer survival of the West. The United States as the last bastion of Western civilization, facing an Islamic Europe .
First I will describe the situation on the ground in Europe . Then, I will say a few things about Islam. To close I will tell you about a meeting in Jerusalem .
The Europe you know is changing.
You have probably seen the landmarks. But in all of these cities, sometimes a few blocks away from your tourist destination, there is another world. It is the world of the parallel society created by Muslim mass-migration.
All throughout Europe a new reality is rising: entire Muslim neighborhoods where very few indigenous people reside or are even seen. And if they are, they might regret it. This goes for the police as well. It's the world of head scarves, where women walk around in figureless tents, with baby strollers and a group of children. Their husbands, or slaveholders if you prefer, walk three steps ahead. With mosques on many street corners. The shops have signs you and I cannot read. You will be hard-pressed to find any economic activity. These are Muslim ghettos controlled by religious fanatics. These are Muslim neighborhoods, and they are mushrooming in every city across Europe . These are the building-blocks for territorial control of increasingly larger portions of Europe , street by street, neighborhood by neighborhood, city by city.
There are now thousands of mosques throughout Europe . With larger congregations than there are in churches. And in every European city there are plans to build super-mosques that will dwarf every church in the region. Clearly, the signal is: we rule.
Many European cities are already one-quarter Muslim: just take Amsterdam , Marseille, and Malmo in Sweden . In many cities the majority of the under-18 population is Muslim. Paris is now surrounded by a ring of Muslim neighborhoods. Mohammed is the most popular name among boys in many cities.
In some elementary schools in Amsterdam the farm can no longer be mentioned, because that would also mean mentioning the pig, and that would be an insult to Muslims.
Many state schools in Belgium and Denmark only serve halal food to all pupils. In once-tolerant Amsterdam gays are beaten up almost exclusively by Muslims. Non-Muslim women routinely hear, 'whore, whore.' Satellite dishes are not pointed to local TV stations, but to stations in the country of origin.
In France school teachers are advised to avoid authors deemed offensive to Muslims, including Voltaire and Diderot; the same is increasingly true of Darwin . The history of the Holocaust can no longer be taught because of Muslim sensitivity.
In England sharia courts are now officially part of the British legal system. Many neighborhoods in France are no-go areas for women without head scarves. Last week a man almost died after being beaten up by Muslims in Brussels , because he was drinking during the Ramadan.
Jews are fleeing France in record numbers, on the run for the worst wave of anti-Semitism since World War II. French is now commonly spoken on the streets of Tel Aviv and Netanya, Israel . I could go on forever with stories like this. Stories about Islamization.
A total of fifty-four million Muslims now live in Europe . San Diego University recently calculated that a staggering 25 percent of the population in Europe will be Muslim just 12 years from now. Bernhard Lewis has predicted a Muslim majority by the end of this century.
Now these are just numbers. And the numbers would not be threatening if the Muslim-immigrants had a strong desire to assimilate. But there are few signs of that. The Pew Research Center reported that half of French Muslims see their loyalty to Islam as greater than their loyalty to France . One-third of French Muslims do not object to suicide attacks. The British Centre for Social Cohesion reported that one-third of British Muslim students are in favor of a worldwide caliphate. Muslims demand what they call 'respect'. And this is how we give them respect. We have Muslim official state holidays.
The Christian-Democratic attorney general is willing to accept sharia in the Netherlands if there is a Muslim majority. We have cabinet members with passports from Morocco and Turkey .
Muslim demands are supported by unlawful behavior, ranging from petty crimes and random violence, for example against ambulance workers and bus drivers, to small-scale riots. Paris has seen its uprising in the low-income suburbs, the banlieus. I call the perpetrators 'settlers'. Because that is what they are. They do not come to integrate into our societies; they come to integrate our society into their Dar-al-Islam. Therefore, they are settlers.
Much of this street violence I mentioned is directed exclusively against non-Muslims, forcing many native people to leave their neighborhoods, their cities, their countries. Moreover, Muslims are now a swing vote not to be ignored.
The second thing you need to know is the importance of Mohammed the prophet. His behavior is an example to all Muslims and cannot be criticized. Now, if Mohammed had been a man of peace, let us say like Ghandi and Mother Theresa wrapped in one, there would be no problem. But Mohammed was a warlord, a mass murderer, a pedophile, and had several marriages - at the same time. Islamic tradition tells us how he fought in battles, how he had his enemies murdered and even had prisoners of war executed. Mohammed himself slaughtered the Jewish tribe of Banu Qurayza. If it is good for Islam, it is good. If it is bad for Islam, it is bad.
Let no one fool you about Islam being a religion. Sure, it has a god, and a here-after, and 72 virgins. But in its essence Islam is a political ideology. It is a system that lays down detailed rules for society and the life of every person. Islam wants to dictate every aspect of life. Islam means 'submission'. Islam is not compatible with freedom and democracy, because what it strives for is sharia. If you want to compare Islam to anything, compare it to communism or national-socialism, these are all totalitarian ideologies.
Now you know why Winston Churchill called Islam 'the most retrograde force in the world', and why he compared Mein Kampf to the Quran. The public has wholeheartedly accepted the Palestinian narrative, and sees Israel as the aggressor. I have lived in this country and visited it dozens of times. I support Israel . First, because it is the Jewish homeland after two thousand years of exile up to and including Auschwitz, second because it is a democracy, and third because Israel is our first line of defense.
This tiny country is situated on the fault line of jihad, frustrating Islam's territorial advance. Israel is facing the front lines of jihad, like Kashmir, Kosovo, the Philippines, Southern Thailand, Darfur in Sudan, Lebanon, and Aceh in Indonesia . Israel is simply in the way. The same way West-Berlin was during the Cold War. The war against Israel is not a war against Israel . It is a war against the West. It is jihad. Israel is simply receiving the blows that are meant for all of us. If there would have been no Israel , Islamic imperialism would have found other venues to release its energy and its desire for conquest. Thanks to Israeli parents who send their children to the army and lay awake at night, parents in Europe and America can sleep well and dream, unaware of the dangers looming.
Many in Europe argue in favor of abandoning Israel in order to address the grievances of our Muslim minorities. But if Israel were, God forbid, to go down, it would not bring any solace to the West It would not mean our Muslim minorities would all of a sudden change their behavior, and accept our values. On the contrary, the end of Israel would give enormous encouragement to the forces of Islam. They would, and rightly so, see the demise of Israel as proof that the West is weak, and doomed. The end of Israel would not mean the end of our problems with Islam, but only the beginning. It would mean the start of the final battle for world domination. If they can get Israel , they can get everything. So-called journalists volunteer to label any and all critics of Islamization as a 'right-wing extremists' or 'racists'. In my country, the Netherlands , 60 percent of the population now sees the mass immigration of Muslims as the number one policy mistake since World War II. And another 60 percent sees Islam as the biggest threat. Yet there is a danger greater danger than terrorist attacks, the scenario of America as the last man standing. The lights may go out in Europe faster than you can imagine. An Islamic Europe means a Europe without freedom and democracy, an economic wasteland, an intellectual nightmare, and a loss of military might for America - as its allies will turn into enemies, enemies with atomic bombs. With an Islamic Europe, it would be up to America alone to preserve the heritage of Rome , Athens and Jerusalem .
Dear friends, liberty is the most precious of gifts. My generation never had to fight for this freedom, it was offered to us on a silver platter, by people who fought for it with their lives. All throughout Europe , American cemeteries remind us of the young boys who never made it home, and whose memory we cherish. My generation does not own this freedom; we are merely its custodians. We can only hand over this hard won liberty to Europe 's children in the same state in which it was offered to us. We cannot strike a deal with mullahs and imams. Future generations would never forgive us. We cannot squander our liberties. We simply do not have the right to do so. We have to take the necessary action now to stop this Islamic stupidity from destroying the free world that we know.
Please take the time to read and understand what is written here, then send it to every
freedom-loving person that you know, it is SO important!!
________________________________________
>"He said the man, identified only as Murat A., was Padovese's driver for the last four and a half years and was mentally unstable."
Not strange that all Muslims have learned from the same playbook. Whenever, Muslims murder an infidel(which happens everyday in various parts of the world), they always claim the murderer to be mentally unstable.Couple of examples, van Gogh's killer was a mental patient, Pope John Paul's attacker had mental problems, various Muslims attackers on synagogues, children schools, in USA had mental problems. Is there a Muslim in the world who doesn't have a mental problem???
Why don't they admit that when Muslims follow Quran, they become mentally unstable forever that entitles them to murder, rape, loot, kill...., infidels!!!
"Mental problems" might be the end product of Mohammedism. But let's show some understanding, the Qur'an says -
8:39 "So fight them until there is no more Fitnah (disbelief [non-Muslims]) and all submit to the religion of Allah alone (in the whole world)."
-so what is a Muslim to do? They have to run out and kill those kuffars, it's what the Qur'an says.
Mentally unstable huh? Yet he was employed as a driver for a bishop... he most probably suffered an SJS (Sudden Jihad Syndrome) episode.
Good to see Turkey accepting that Islam is a mental condition, lets hope the West can catch up now and update DSM-IV to include Islam. The DSM should list Moderate Islam as the most benign presentation (mildly sociopathic but not violently dangerous) and Jihad as the more violent and psychopathic presentation; SJS presents as the acute form at the tipping point between the two mental states.
"...He said the man, identified only as Murat A., was Padovese's driver for the last four and a half years and was mentally unstable..."
If he was so seriously "mentally unstable" I doubt he would have been retained as a drive for so long. My guess is that as "driver" he knew "too much." The priest probably had become too relaxed in his presence, and perhaps conversations were overheard. That is my guess - the driver acted like he was in sympathy to the priest, but in the end he turned on him. These "drivers" are sometimes almost like a valet - very present in one's daily life - almost like family - but obviously not.
Wow - I just re-read the story
Bishop!
Yikes - this is huge.
Note to Catholics in Muslim countries:
Hire Christian drivers, etc.
The Bishop was appointed by Pope JP II, a survivor of turkish assassin ali agca.
Doomed artist of the peace initiative "Brides of Tour" was also from Milan and also met with a turkish end.(at that time muslim outrage was flaring over the release of Fitna)
"We have learned that the suspect had psychological problems and was receiving treatment."
Most commonly used Taquiya practice to explain away irresistible urge by the devout fanatics to kill unbelievers. The Islamic ideology drives most of the morons unstable and will infect the devout with ideological insanity. It will ultimately become a psychological disorder when the ideologically insane do not get an opportunity to appease their blood thirsty God with the blood of infidels to book their seat in the much sought after Islamic heaven. All the pleasurable things allowed in heaven are cleverly forbidden in the present life and this exacerbates the desperate urge to seek Islamic heaven. Does it mean that the governments are justified to quote this method in madness as an excusable reason? How can unstable or an insane mind is capable of selecting a prominent Bishop to stab to death? Unless the world realizes that Islam is a creation by an evil mind and it demonizes its followers and take strong steps accordingly, the minorities in Islamic countries will be driven out or completely wiped out. All the doctors in the world will not be able to treat the psychosomatic disorders of the so called devout as addressing its root is nothing but blasphemy punishable by death. Hence, the unbelievers will be continuously deceived with lies like that it is the work of some fanatics or by an insane mind.
The superficial truth is that this murderer is mentally unstable, the deeper truth is that the cause for this psychopathy, craziness is caused by the koran, islam and that all muslims to varying degrees have this form of malignant mental disorder. Time and again reason has failed to protectinnocent people form getting hurt by it and only kinetic means have thwarted its progress.
"Murat A." was "mentally unstable", and there is no evidence to indicate a "political" motivation.
Odd that they just refer to him as Murat A. (His full name is probably Murat Ali Ilove Killingfor Mohammed)
So that'a it folks! Move along, nothing to see here or worry about. Perhaps a RELIGIOUS motivation? No, don't be CRAZY!
How interesting that "mental instability" so often takes the form of killing prominent Christians (or other non-Moslems). The article says that Christians make up only about one per cent of the Turkish population. So, for the mental instability argument to hold water, there ought to be roughly one hundred attacks on Moslems for every attack on a Christian. Any news report about an attack on a Christian ought to be able to list many dozens of such attacks on Moslems. The fact that there never are any such lists shows that the mental instability argument is just malarkey. The problem is Moslem, not mental, instability.
And people refuse to take Geert Wilders seriously? That 25 percent projected Muslim European Population is worse than it sounds. One fanatical Muslim is ready to kill three apathetic westerners.
The Bishop was a fool and paid the price. He should have had his own Christian driver and never appear in public with any Catholic regalia. And if the Church wouldn't provide him a driver then he should have taken a early retirement or transfer.
The reality is, being Christian in a Islamic country is unhealthy. You are surrounded by people who want to kill or beat you for merely being a infidel.
in Turkey as in many other muslim countries they have run out of Jew, so now they kill the "sunday people", ie Christians.
Marylouise,
The murderer Murat Altun was also a catholic.
The Sharia Law body of Afganistan recently determined that enforcing the death penalty on a mentally unstable convert to Christianity was unjustified. Anyone know what references were used by the Juresprudent to come to this conclusion? Are there mental instability provisions in Islam?
anonamustafa "Dear Pope,
Raise an army.
Take back the Hagia Sophia.
For starters..."
I'd be with you on this anonmustafa but where would the Pope find enough supporters for his army?
Most of Europe with the exception of a few pockets of resistance have gone Muslim and mostly Turkish Muslims.
If he could raise an army it would be todefeat the Islamic influence within his own borders.
He had a reputation of being a feisty Bishop and openly stated to the press that neither the 16 year old boy who murdered Father Santoro nor his mother showed the least remorse for the killing. Another words, he was actually ANGRY. Now its his turn.
"Church sources in Turkey had expressed discomfort at the absence of public concern about the murder of Father Santoro, saying that the government and media were downplaying the Islamic threats against the Christian minority."
The "Church Sources" was the Bishop himself it seems. Didn't he know enough to kiss Muslim ass?
I like to think we're not so jaded here that we don't automatically attribute any and every act of violence perpetrated by a Muslim against an infidel to be religiously motivated. It's not beyond the realm of possibility that the man WAS mentally ill.
The more important issue raised here is the Catholic Church's unwillingness to speak out on behalf of Christians being persecuted in the Muslim realm. Pope Benedict started his papacy promisingly, aptly acknowledging Islamic intolerance by quoting from a 14th century Byzantine Emperor. But he has since begun to emulate his immediate predecessor by opting for an ineffectual "quiet diplomacy" that betrays not only the truth, but the hopes and the lives of the persecuted.
Given the disposition of forces in this civilizational conflict, the ugly truth of Islam is one of OUR most potent weapons. Too bad our leaders - and that includes Pope Benedict - are afraid to use it.
and meanwhile over in Belgium .............
An Albanian immigrant was on the run today after shooting a female judge dead
Mr De Clerck said a recent trial involving alleged Islamic terrorists had seen x-ray machines and metal detectors installed at all entrances to the Palais de Justice.
albanian killers - muslim terrorists -what is happening to our countries ?
This was unknown some years ago
What's in store for us in twenty years' time ?
Sonofwalker
I've got *another* one for your collection.
A gang of 'youths', led by a Bosnian Muslim, invaded a Catholic high school in Australia, and seriously wounded two of the young students. Not all members of the gang were Muslims; but the ringleader and instigator most assuredly was.
And said ringleader, Zinajdo Hasanovic, who attacked defenceless schoolkids **with a meat-cleaver** is viewed as having - surprise, surprise - PTSD, poor fellow.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/breaking-news/zinajdo-hasanovic-for-maiming-student-with-meat-cleaver/story-fn3dxity-1225871081904
From that article:
"The court heard Hasanovic had fled to Australia as a refugee from the Bosnian war at an early age after losing his father and uncle within days of each other.
Judge Searles acknowledged that, as a result, Hasanovic was suffering from untreated post-traumatic stress disorder."
Suuure.
Two other articles containing earlier reports with a few additional details about the attack - which looks to me like a classic ghazwa or jihad raid, the target being a **Catholic** private school, carried out by Muslims plus a couple of what we might call 'janissaries'.
http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/meat-cleaver-attack-on-school-students-leads-to-detention/story-e6freoof-1225806767432
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/teen-gang-member-jailed-over-meat-cleaver-attack-on-two-15-year-old-schoolboys/story-e6frf7jo-1225806667783
you took the words right out of my mouth...
We never hear from a Christian with men with mental problems killing Imans or screaming Christian we are taken over the Islam countries untill they have all converted to Christianity.
All of them are sick demented people, with whom you can't discuss Religion in a normal way.
The driver was thanj christian since the western new media didnot say he was than muslim to demonise Islam the driver must be than christian why elso would the church hire him.
The first thing I did when I went to Istanbul was go to church. And I'd do it again in a heartbeat...
To know islame is to leave islame..
With the current trend of mental health issues, I can only draw my conslusions on 2 possibilities: 1) The man is indeed mentally unstable and knows what he did is wrong but is blaming it on his mental difficulties to get out of the justice system - OR - he's he got caught up in Islam, which manipulated his way of thinking especially in his mental state. Either way, it's not good, and blaming his action on his mental difficulties only shifts the focus off the real issue, which is Muslims targeting Christians and other religions. We get that here in Canada/USA, it's really sad that Muslims are hiding behind mental illnesses to go thru such extremes.
"The climate has changed," he [Catholic bishop Luigi Padovese, stabbed to death the other day] said. "It is the Catholic priests that are being targeted."
The "climate has changed" because Erdogan, and the forces of Islam, are creating a new Turkey. In that new Turkey, the government is cunningly, relentlessly, systematically undoing the constraints put on Islam by Ataturk, and that is doing so in a climate that puts under great pressure, through trumped-up charges, all those who defend secularism, and those Kemalist reforms. These include the university rectors and many professors, journalists of the few newspapers not now subject to Kemalism (or bought and controlled, as Zaman is controlled, by those pushing the return to Islam), members of the judiciary, the officer corps of the army, and many of the old secular elite, and Turkey proceeds in its descent toward more Islam, apparently having learned nothing from the example of the past thirty years of More-Islam in Iran (with all that that has meant for the moral, intellectual, political, economic, and social decay of that country). Do Turks, educated Turks, secular Turks, wish Turkey to look more like Iran, or still worse, like any of the Muslim Arab states? Is there a single Muslim Arab state that is as advanced as Turkey, Turkey as it managed to become, but only because of Mustafa Kemal, Ataturk, and those who followed in his line, which for Turkey is the only way out?
THE BIGGEST THREAT TO THE AMERICAN WAY OF LIFE IS OUR VERY OWN
PRESIDENT!
Subject: HB 1388 Passed
Date: Friday, May 28, 2010, 9:22 AM
Here's one for you.
The beat goes on with no end in sight.
HB 1388 PASSED
You just spent $20,000,000 to move members/supporters of
Hamas, a terrorist organization, to the United States; housing, food, the whole
enchilada.
HB 1388 PASSED
Whether you are an Obama fan, or not, EVERYONE IN THE U.S.
needs to know....
Something happened... H.R. 1388 was passed, behind our
backs. You may want to read about it... It wasn't mentioned on the news... just
went by on the ticker tape at the bottom of the CNN
screen.
Obama funds $20M in tax payer dollars to immigrate Hamas
Refugees to the USA. This is the news that didn't make the headlines...
By executive order, President Barack Obama has ordered the
expenditure of $20.3 million in "migration assistance" to the Palestinian
refugees and "conflict victims" in Gaza.
The "presidential determination," which allows hundreds of
thousands of Palestinians with ties to Hamas to resettle in the United States,
was signed and appears in the Federal Register.
Few on Capitol Hill, or in the media, took note that the
order provides a free ticket replete with housing and food allowances to
individuals who have displayed their overwhelming support to the Islamic
Resistance Movement (Hamas) in the parliamentary election of January 2006.
Now we learn that he is allowing thousands of Palestinian
refuges to move to, and live in, the US at American taxpayer expense.
These important, and insightful, issues are being "lost"
in the blinding bail-outs and "stimulation" packages.
Doubtful? To verify this for yourself:
www.thefederalregister.com/d.p/2009-02-04-E9-2488
There's absolutely no need for us civilized people to "demonise" islam. You sand weasels have already done it for us - just read a few surah from mein koranf and you'll see I'm right.